Photo by Eddo Hartmann
Photo by Eddo Hartmann
For seven years I played in popduo BAUER, an electronic/melodical band from Amsterdam, with Berend Dubbe. Since 1999 we released 4 albums and won a Silver Harp.
After our last orchestral album "The Bauer Melody of 2006" we have taken a break and I started a solo career under my own name. I wrote the soundtrack for a couple of short movies and travelled numerous times to San Francisco and New York where I played with local musicians. Those musical influences are reflected in the songs I wrote over the past years, resulting in my first solo album called WINTERLAND.
The album is named after the movie WINTERLAND by artist/director Dick Tuinder. I wrote the soundtrack including the title song and 3 more popsongs I also wrote most of the instrumental score. The arrangements I wrote were beautifully orchestrated by Martin Fondse.
My live band contains some talented musicians: Mark van den Driest (Drums & percussion), Rik Hansen / Gert-Jan Blom (Bass), Annie Tangberg (Cello & Banjo) and Hanna Vink (Backing Vocals, Banjo, Guitar, Mellotron Sounds & Melodica). I sing and play on my beloved Wurlitzer Piano 200A.
This is my first solo cd that contains 15 songs that I wrote over the past 3 years.
Drawings by Dick Tuinder
Design by Sonja
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Listen to 4 tracks of the album:
In October 2009 we played a few shows at the Melkweg called WINTERLAND LIVE. The concept for these shows was developed by Dick Tuinder and myself. Dick made some beautiful paintings and screened fragments of his movie WINTERLAND during our live performance. He painted live and filmed a painted freeway and a cardboard book. Images and music blended together magically into an extraordinary show .
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